Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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books, conventionality, or the fear of man; even the
books, conventionality, or the fear of man; even the
self-accusing reminder he is unlearned, cannot disturb
the inspired man. I have seen learned men at the
mercy of books, and the unlearned eloquent beyond
them; the so-called mediums let go their beliefs by
supposing somebody else is talking for them, and thus
speak beyond the admitted limits of their own capac-
ities. Soul is infinite in eloquence, as in all else, but
sense is finite in this as in all else; the Soul-inspired
are not comprehended by the man of sense, and the
sense-inspired are mediums deceived in the origin of
what they say. The victim of delirium sees objects
through the shadowy evidence of delusion, and so does
the sleeper, the medium, or clairvoyant, and mortal
man. Where neither certainty of phenomena nor evi-
dence of Principle exists there is no real foundation.
All theories founded on the belief that Soul is in body,
God in man, and Intelligence in matter, therefore, that
we must develop from within outwardly, are false, and
fatal to science. Wisdom is from without, development
is to learn this, to leave the belief of Wisdom within a
skull-bone, and take hold of our God-being outside of
matter. There is no "inner life;" for Life is God,
and God never migrated from man! cause was never
in its effect. In common practice we make no attempt
to put the greater into the less; and if Soul is superior
to body, it is outside of it; and if God is superior to
man, he is not in man; and furthermore, man must get
out of six feet of Intelligence before he is immortal in
Soul. Wisdom cometh from without; Principle is cir-
cumference, and idea centre; Soul is Principle, and
man the central idea of Soul.
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Science reverses the conclusions of personal sense in
Science reverses the conclusions of personal sense in
every instance, and abides by a given statement of man
to bring out the harmony and immortality, that theories
have failed to do. No condition of matter can change
the fact in numbers that four times three is twelve;
science should govern thought, and nothing can mar or
destroy man controlled by science. Mediumship is
without a scientific statement or proof, and claims to
gather Wisdom from "spirits," personalities, outside of
matter, while the basis of its evidence is admitted to
be matter conditions. The theory called spiritualism
admits that God is Principle, but leaves this admission
without practical proof. If God is Principle, science
alone reveals God; then wherefore ask personalities of
another plane to explain Life, Truth and Love? why
not strive to reach these beatitudes through science,
and hold them your own instead of another's to bestow
on you. Person cannot interpret Love, for Love alone
explains itself; science reveals and explains Principle,
but man cannot explain God; six feet, nor the stature
of ancient giants can represent "the fullness of the
stature of man in Christ," in other words, the idea of
Truth. Measurement may represent the man of per-
sonal sense, but this is not the man of Soul.
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Mediumship communes with person instead of Prin-
Mediumship communes with person instead of Prin-
ciple, the only Intelligence, Life and Love; and accepts
a personal version of Principle, praying God to be God,
as if Love was idle, and omnipotence uninformed. To
call on light for light, is absurd. "Let there be Light,"
is the will of Wisdom; and this full effulgence has no-
thing to do with mortal stint, but shines for all. Uni-
versal Love bestows all good without respect to per-